Abigail Breslin

Sweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is "Nancy Drew" with training wheels. It's a moist-eyed children's comedy-drama that dares to ask how much today's kids need to know about the Great Depression, or a Golden Age when all a plucky, smart girl could ever want out of life is "to be a (newspaper) reporter."

That eternal "Little Miss Sunshine," Abigail Breslin, has the title role, an upper-middle-class child who isn't blind to the hunger and homelessness going on around her. Daddy (Chris O'Donnell) may provide nicely for her and mom (Julia Ormond). But Daddy sells Plymouths in 1934 Cincinnati. And...

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Sweet, old-fashioned and sentimental to a fault, "Kit Kittredge: An American Girl" is "Nancy Drew" with training wheels. It's a moist-eyed children's comedy-drama that dares to ask how much today's kids need to know about the Great Depression, or a Golden...

The good old days are back, when men were really hairy and saber-toothed tigers ate them. "10,000 BC" (PG-13), released on DVD today, is the latest action spectacle from director Roland Emmerich ("Independence Day," "The Day After Tomorrow"). The film...

Nim (Abigail Breslin) lives a regular Nim's Family Robinson life on her own deserted isle in "Nim's Island," the reasonably delightful new kids' fantasy film based on Wendy Orr's novel. She swings among the trees, spends her days with her pals - a sea...

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The 2013 Fall Movie Preview is a broad snapshot of films opening through Nov. 1. Release dates and other details, as compiled by Oliver Gettell, are subject to change.
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36 Saints
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